Blue stream
on November 17, 2005
Blue Stream ( Russian Голубой поток , Turkish Mavi Akım , English Blue Stream ) is a pipeline for the transport of Russian natural gas through the Black Sea to Turkey . It is designed to transport 19 billion cubic meters of gas per year.
history
On December 15, 1997, the contract between Russia and Turkey was signed, which included the delivery of 365 billion cubic meters of gas within 25 years.
The pipeline was built by Gazprom , Eni and the Turkish state for 2.7 billion euros . Blue Stream pipeline BV , registered in the Netherlands, was founded on November 16, 1999 as the owner of the part running in the sea .
The underwater work lasted from September 2001 to June 2002. The construction work was finished in October 2002 and the first gas flowed in February 2003. The official opening took place in November 2005.
While 7 billion cubic meters of gas were transported in 2006, which corresponded to 38% of the total volume supplied by Gazprom to Turkey, in 2009 it was 9.8 billion cubic meters (49%).
In March 2009, Russia and Turkey agreed to build a second pipeline called Blauer Strom 2 , which will supply Israel , Lebanon , Syria and Cyprus with gas. According to Putin in the summer of 2010, Israel has now discovered its own gas reserves and will therefore not need the gas supplies and will probably not be connected to the pipeline.
In September 2010, 51 billion cubic meters of gas had flowed through the pipeline.
course
The gas pipeline is 1,213 kilometers long. The Russian part extends over 373 km on land, from the Stavropol region to the Krasnodar region . This is followed by a 396 km long section in the sea, with depths of more than 2150 m being reached. In Turkey, the pipeline begins in Samsun and ends after 444 km in Ankara .
See also
Web links
- Gazprom : Blue Stream . on www.gazprom.de (German, Russian, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ offshore-technology.com: Blue Stream Natural Gas Pipeline
- ↑ Aleksey Druginin: Russia may exclude Israel from Blue Stream-2 gas pipeline project , RIA Novosti, June 8, 2010, accessed February 24, 2011